"See? HUGE deal-breaker!" Hamuko gestured at him, as if to say 'my point exactly!' "And I could see a lot of people considering it really seriously for the sake of living for hundreds of years. Or if they might die anyway. Right?"

They're dangerous, then. Zenkichi had to go through something truly harrowing to get them, to become a 'weapon', to be able to fight. He could've died.

So the fact that he was still here, still standing... that was pretty cool.

"You have a really admirable resolve, Wolf-pop."